{"id":16798,"date":"2013-08-23T13:33:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T17:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/?p=16798"},"modified":"2020-09-09T14:11:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T14:11:34","slug":"don-cash-ufcws-minority-coalition-president-on-the-march-on-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/don-cash-ufcws-minority-coalition-president-on-the-march-on-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Cash, UFCW&#8217;s Minority Coalition President, on the March on Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"image\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Cash-pic-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"Don Cash\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don Cash, president of the UFCW&#8217;s Minority Coalition a supporter of the Retail Justice Alliance, reflects on his experience at the 1963 March on Washington:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(The following is from <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.religionnews.com\/marchonwashington\/interviews.html#don_cash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">religionnews.com<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Don Cash had graduated from high school in June 1963 and decided on the spur of the moment to join the March on Washington when he finished his work shift at a nearby warehouse. The Baptist layman is the president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union\u2019s Minority Coalition and a board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the NAACP. He lives in Columbia, Md.<\/em><br>\n<strong>What is your most lasting memory of your participating in the march?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was just overwhelmed. I saw old women &#8212; at the time they appeared to me to be old; they had to be in their 40s and 50s &#8212; sitting on the curb wiping their faces, with straw hats. It was very, very hot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was just people everywhere. I had never seen that many folks where it was mixed, where it was black and white people, a very diverse crowd. Nobody was laughing dancing or joking. You could tell that it was very, very serious.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had never experienced all of these people marching and walking in unison and orderly, quietly, people hugging. I saw no incident. None.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr. King spoke of his dream for America. Where do you think we are as a society in fulfilling that dream?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think we got a long ways to go but I do think that there\u2019s been a lot of changes. I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll ever see what Martin Luther King dreamed in reality, in total. I think we\u2019ll always have to strive for perfection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dream that he had is a perfect world and I think that in order to be perfect, you have to continue to work at it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"tw-max-w-217 tw-m-auto tw-px-6 rich-text contained-block\" data-module=\"paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For additional information about various events commemorating the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the March on Washington, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekingcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.thekingcenter.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Cash, president of the UFCW&#8217;s Minority Coalition a supporter of the Retail Justice Alliance, reflects on his experience at the 1963 March on Washington: (The following is from religionnews.com) Don Cash had graduated from high school in June 1963 and decided on the spur of the moment to join the March on Washington when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47,7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-industries","category-retail"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Don Cash, UFCW&#039;s Minority Coalition President, on the March on Washington - The United Food &amp; 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